According to the head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Dr. Mostafa Waziri; The blocks were allegedly part of a shrine dedicated to the god Osiris, likely built during the era of King Ptolemy I.

A number of ancient papyri from Oxyrhynchus, part of the Egypt Exploration Society’s collection, (The ancient texts, which date from the 3rd to the 7th Century, are part of the Oxyrhynchus collection who discovered in an Egyptian rubbish dump in…

Egypt archaeologists find 20 ancient coffins in necropolis of Asasif near Luxor antic city.

Aarchaeologists located a tank used to store drinking water, possibly for the needs of the workforce. The team found a scarab ring, hundreds of inlay beads and golden objects which were used to decorate royal coffins. Some of the inlays are shaped in…

Papyrus fragment part of an ancient puzzle

Ancient DNA has shed fresh light light on the origins of the legendary Biblical people who gave their name to mindless thuggery. It suggests they descended from migrants who crossed the Mediterranean and reached the shores of modern-day Israel,…

A new shipwreck from the Bronze age discovered in Turkey.

Tooth oxygen isotopes reveal Late Bronze Age origin of Mediterranean fish aquaculture and trade... The analyses showed that some of the gilthead sea bream originated from the southeastern Mediterranean but that roughly three out of every four must…

Non-invasive technique devised by British Museum sheds light on dyeing and weaving process.